31 January 2010

"While the defence argued that Brotherston Sr. was acting in self-defence during a life-and-death struggle with (crack-cocaine addict and dealer) Taylor, who had a gun and a knife, Crown prosecutors Patrick Weir and Carmen Rogers insisted the prolonged beating and extensive injuries suffered by Taylor were not the result of self-defence."

I'm just waiting for... "sitting on a thronemade of human skulls"...You have to wait 'til the end of the article to get to the meat of this little vignette.

"While past Liberal governments never shied from stacking the Senate with party hacks, organizers, bagmen and supporters, Mr. Ignatieff said Canadians have to remember that the Conservatives had promised to act differently."

Hey, Iggy... you mean different like this?

“Prime Minister Harper is sending a clear message by appointing me senator to Canadians and Quebeckers that the Conservative government defends victims rights as opposed to those of criminals,” said Mr. Boisvenu, who promised to donate his senator's salary to the Murdered or Missing Persons' Families' Association which he founded.

Yeah... those knuckle-draggin Neocons and their dastardly "crime agenda."

...why did the dastardly Americans & Canadians send all those beastly soldiers?

"Jo Jo was shot and killed on the second day we were there. He was the victim of a car-jacking. I left him alone for two hours and he was driving in the city."

"A guy stopped him and told him to get out of the car. No one knows quite what happened next but he was shot twice and killed instantly. The jacker didn't even want the car, he just wanted to take the fuel."

Wake up, dopey... you're playing "Haiti rules" now.

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LAST WORD: Speaking of Wyclef Jean...

"Jean has been ubiquitous these past weeks raising money for Haiti, and no doubt his tears are real. But financial records from Yele Haiti show that Jean has made sure the first person to get paid from Yele Haiti events was himself – including a staggering $100,000 fee for him to perform at one of his own events."

30 January 2010

...leftoid fanboy trolls is responsible for flooding the comments here with dozens of little love letters like this?I'm guessing... it's probably the same lost little boy who decided to spoof a bunch of comments here as "Carolyn"... and then accused me of stalking him/her.

Two weeks ago, the Times of London rocked the global-warming movement by revealing that one of their pet claims — that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 — was not only based on nothing but speculation, but also lifted incorrectly by the IPCC.

The UN body has a bigger problem today, as the Times now reports that the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri, knew about the error for months, and never bothered to mention it at the Copenhagen summit.

U.S. President Barack Obama has abandoned plans to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed – the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks – from Guantanamo to Manhattan for a criminal trial close to where the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed.

Facing a revolt from New Yorkers and a congressional threat to withhold the hundreds of millions of dollars needed for security for the trial, Mr. Obama has bowed to the inevitable and is now expected to hold the trial elsewhere, likely at a military base.

“I think I can acknowledge the obvious,” an administration official said. “We're considering other options.”

"And so what you have here, I think, is the worst of all worlds, because the president gets to have a monarchical occasion, in which he indulges in sort of cheap, parliamentary sneering without the leader of Her Majesty’s loyal opposition being able to yell across the aisle, nuts to you, which is what would happen if he was doing that at Westminster or in Ottawa or in Canberra, or any other self-respecting parliament."

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

The compassionate, intellectual left responds...Good grief, Bully... you kiss your, uh... partner... with that mouth?

A 14-year-old boy facing sex charges in Toronto is the sole resident of a $350,000 Mississauga group home and gets $150 a week for allowance, officials say.

The boy, who has the latest computer games, receives his allowance in addition to having his meals prepared and laundry washed, sources said.

Sources said a number of CAS group homes in the GTA are for use by single youths. This one is a three-bedroom home, about 1,800 square feet, not intended for more than one resident.

Just something to think about... while you're figuring out how much money Dalton's HST is really going to cost you.

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RELATED: Maybe he can prorogue...

"How does the premier get around that?" said a Liberal insider, referring to the political problem of calling a by-election in Grit-held Ottawa West-Nepean but not having one simultaneously in the Tory stronghold of Leeds-Grenville.

Because Watson and Runciman are resigning at the same time, tradition dictates both by-elections be held the same day – perhaps on March 11.

"After months of wrangling with the federal government’s chief censorship body, the CTF was able to obtain records from the CHRC revealing that Chief Commissar Jennifer Lynch spent much more on flights and hospitality than she revealed online, and that what she disclosed was at times nearly half of the actual cost."

28 January 2010

In 2008, the Brants and Miracle were ordered to return control of the land -- on which sits Miracle's Mohawk Liquidation Centre -- to the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.

"What is it they say, possession is 99 per cent of the law?"

Well actually... I think that's the "Mugabe Doctrine"... in Canada, most of us actually try to abide by a little thing called the Criminal Code.

What this Intelligencer puff-piece fails to report is that this whole transaction was a scam from the get-go...

"Though they did not purchase or pay for the lands, they did "BORROW"hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ohwistha - an Aboriginal finance company that administered development loans for native businesses - and from Industry Canada to help them construct buildings there."

Small point of clarification here... it's only "borrowing" if you actually make an effort to pay the loan back.

And where exactly does an aboriginal finance company get this kind of valuta? I'm guessing it's part of the 12 billion dollars Canadian taxpayers shell out to prop up First Nations communities every year.

And finally... guess who's up to his eyebrows in this slick little shell-game?

Well... all those vampire shows are pretty popular these days... that's gotta help...

“Liberals cannot win a government unless they have a significant gap in their favour with women voters.”

And if there's one thing we know about the Liberal Party... it's that they're all about the ladies...

-- OTTAWA -- (Liberal) Immigration Minister Judy Sgro is defending the government's policy of admitting foreign exotic dancers to work in Canada, saying the strip club business is "a strong industry" with "lots of customers."

"We've got immigrant doctors driving cabs and badly needed tradespeople not even able to get into the country. But Liberals want to ensure the flow of new strippers and exploited sex trade workers continues!"

Go Iggy, go!

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I have always thought of the stripper shortage as a cleavage issue as opposed to a wedge issue."

-- OTTAWA -- The Conservative government is rekindling the controversial debate over youth justice with a plan to impose stiffer adult sentences for young murderers and rapists and lift publication bans for serious sex offenders, QMI Agency has learned.

That seems pretty straightforward... I mean who could possibly argue against that?

But, of course...

The memorandum also predicts the Liberals will publicly support the legislative reforms but work against them away from the cameras.

In all of those three dozen inquest exhibits... did the jury get to see a single picture of the battered, bloody corpseof Kathleen Hart... because in the weepy, con-sucking CBC article... she gets a total of ONE SINGLE SENTENCE...

"He was serving a 17-year-sentence for manslaughter for the beating death of his common-law wife."

Now, despite this... and contrary to all logic and reason... guess who gets to be the victim here. Here's a hint... it's not Kathleen Hart.

Think of it this way, Peace Moonbeam... ol' Martin just balanced the cosmic scales.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Manslaughter is a charge for people who accidently run over someone and kill them. Did he accidently beat his wife to death?"

27 January 2010

"The DTT Report recommends the disestablishment (closure) of 18 churches in the Diocese, the move of 13 of them to another nearby church to build a congregation large enough to carry out the church’s mission with enough funding from its members to support it."

Villanueva’s citizenship application was denied two years ago because of criminal activities dating back to 2006 when he was associated with street gangs.

Villanueva faces weapons and robbery charges and is due back in court in April.

This guy was no cherry.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"if police in 33 and 41 by beat up too many teenget lead them head injury and lead to mental hospital this is too many lead from teen to youth those name of officers who beat to head of child to made them mental ill need to come up now"

Toronto Police were called to the Victoria Park Ave. and Ellesmere Rd. area around 5 a.m. Wednesday for a man suffering multiple stab wounds to his abdomen.

Rumour has it, Toronto Councillors are considering mandating the use of "plastic cutlery" throughout the GTA.

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UPDATE: Brampton murder victim id'd

Vachon Tatchell, 21, of Brampton, was shot shortly before 9 p.m. on Sunday following a confrontation with his assailant and was transferred to a Toronto trauma centre. Homicide detectives indicated on Monday that they didn't expect him to survive.

Police arrested Kevin Phillips, 22, of Brampton on Monday. They laid a charge of aggravated assault against him.

I wonder if the compassionate, intellectual Star offers their employees "Anger Management" classes.

You have to wonder why the People's Paper would put up with Comrade Zerbisias screechy cant... ...which she admits she "swiped from one of my favourite blogs, Canadian Cynic."

This, of course, is the same anti-semitic Canadian Cynic who makes a hobby out of attacking women online... but is most famous for his vile screed telling the mother of a slain Canadian soldier... "Fuck you and your grief."

"In the same way that a ghetto childhood can help a boxer become heavyweight champion of the world, the Trabant's East German background gives it a clear advantage in its bid for the Worst Car of All Time title."

"The now-fallen communist state provided ideal conditions for the creation of a truly awful vehicle: a demoralized labour force, incompetently-run factories, and a iron-fisted political system that crushed innovation."

A compressed cardboard body? Who could have guessed that wouldn't work out?

The Socialist opposition has come out officially against a ban, saying it would be difficult to enforce. It says it is opposed to full veils in principle, but some members have expressed fears about any ruling that could stigmatise Muslim women.

-- OTTAWA -- A Liberal MP says he believes the federal government should investigate whether the pieing of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a woman opposed to the seal hunt constitutes an act of terrorism.

The animal-rights group PETA later took responsibility for the incident.

Despite the imposition of a code of silence on Mr. Rebagliati by the federal Liberal Party, for whom he plans to run in the next election, the former Olympian spoke openly about his desire to see marijuana legalized.

"Prohibition didn't work; this isn't working," he said after running with the torch, which some have even said resembles a giant joint.

He was ultimately allowed to keep his gold medal (he argued that he'd inhaled the smoke second-hand but the IOC's decision was based on the fact that marijuana was not specifically banned). But the headline-making incident took a deep toll.

So bong related activities aside... what's ol' Ross been up to?

"A cloud was following me, plus everyone knew who I was. It's like the perfect storm for someone to go into hiding, which is basically what I did for two years."

He was unable to collect his mail, go shopping, or pay his taxes. "I was completely unable to function. I was in shock, actually, coming back." He has had more ups and downs in the years since: lawsuits and money problems.

25 January 2010

If you're planning to blow shit up... you might just wanna do it north of the 49th parallel...

"Another suspect in the so-called “Toronto 18” case has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences Wednesday – and will released from prison as early as Thursday."

...'cos it looks like Uncle Sam is through foolin' around...

Two Tamil-Canadians who were caught by the FBI trying to buy anti-aircraft missiles and other weapons for the Tamil Tigers three years ago have been sentenced to 25 years in prisonwith no chance of parole.

-- NATPOST -- MS specialists blame the over-heated response in large part on that CTV documentary and an accompanying newspaper report, calling the stories one-sided depictions of preliminary, unproven research, including the treatment Dr. Zamboni evocatively terms the "Liberation" procedure.

"There have been reverberations across the world as a result of that media story," said Dr. Mark Freedman, a neurologist at Ottawa Hospital and a top MS researcher. "I think there are going to be millions of dollars spent now to follow a hoax.

24 January 2010

-- SUN MEDIA -- Rae’s NDP won power Sept. 6, 1990. On Dec. 19, 1991, Rae prorogued the House. They didn’t come back until April 6, 1992. He then prorogued again, Dec. 10, 1992 — and didn’t come back until April 13, 1993.

By 1994, his government had run out of steam. They were running double-digit deficits and he’d doubled the debt. Some of his experimental policies proved laughable at best and disastrous at worst.

Limping badly, he prorogued for the third time on Dec. 9, 1994. The House did not sit again until the legislature was dissolved April 28, 1995.

For four-and-a-half months, this province had no sitting Legislature.

What's that, Jacko... no comment? And you, Mr Ignatieff... anything to say about your former college room-mate and fellow Liberal MP?

"In view of the fact that Bob Rae has prorogued Parliament three times, Jean Chretien four times, and Pierre Trudeau eleven times, do you see Stephen Harper’s second prorogation as (a) a particular abuse of power or (b) the use of a legitimate constitutional tool?"

"There are others who are still out there who have been trained and who are clean skins -- that means people who we do not have a record of, people who may not look like al Qaeda terrorists, who may not be Arabs, and may not be men."

Feminism... thy name is Yemen.

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RELATED: Meanwhile... back at the ranch

"Even his friends say Imam Soharwardy has often been the author of his own misfortune, and they acknowledge it will not be easy for him to leave his old image behind."

Make sure you don't miss the part about ol' Syed "protecting" Ezra Levant.

22 January 2010

-- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Auditor General Sheila Fraser wrapped up a five-day visit to Afghanistan on Friday, impressed with what she saw but concerned about the fate of Canadian projects after the pullout next year.

"There's really a strong development component to the mission, which I don't think Canadians are aware of and how important that is," Fraser said.

-- WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday.

Goodness gracious... looks like I'm not the only one who's getting a little fed up...

This hardening attitude among Canadians is revealed in a new Angus Reid public opinion survey that found 62 per cent of respondents favour capital punishment for murderers, while 31 per cent believe that rapists should be put to death.

Hmmm...

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"I think we can expect this poll to disappear down the memory hole during the next federal election campaign - when The Count runs on the patented 'Scary! Hidden! Agenda!(tm)' platform."

21 January 2010

A 22-year-old paraplegic who has launched a $17-million lawsuit arising from his incarceration in the Toronto (Don) Jail on drug charges now has another court date in sight: He has been charged with dealing cocaine, marijuana and Ecstasy from his room at St. Michael's Hospital.

Further investigation revealed that a loaded handgun and a bulletproof vest were allegedly found in Mr. Milligan's room, along with other drugs.

I guess you never know when you might have to cap a rogue candy-striper.

Oh yeah... the best part of this was that the fuzzy-bunny Red Star held this guy up as their "Victim of the Week" just a little while ago.

Milligan was locked up at the Don between October and December 2007 after Toronto police raided his apartment and charged him with drug possession.

At the time, he was 19 and trying to adjust to life after a gunshot injury to his spine left him a paraplegic in the spring of 2007.

Live and DON"T LEARN, eh?

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AIRBRUSH UPDATE: Now you see it...

...now you don't...Pravda would be proud.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"Arrested for dealing dope while in a wheelchair in a hospital."

"I think that's the gansta' trifecta."

I don't get it. I'd have bet large... that Dawg & Company would have dropped by to defend this poor lad.

-- QUEENS PARK -- Hudak warned that the agreement, which McGuinty will unveil Thursday at The Exchange Tower, could end up being "a massive multibillion-dollar giveaway to a foreign-based conglomerate without even the most basic of public reviews."

"At its core, it is a preferential, sole-sourced deal that is likely in violation of Ontario's procurement rules."

In the 1970s, nearly 600 Canadian weather stations fed surface temperature readings into a global database assembled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Today, NOAA only collects data from 35 stations across Canada.

Only one station -- at Eureka on Ellesmere Island -- is now used by NOAA as a temperature gauge for all Canadian territory above the Arctic Circle.

Mr. D'Aleo and Mr. Smith say NOAA and GISS also ignore data from numerous weather stations in other parts of the world, including Russia, the U.S. and China.

Neither agency responded to a request for comment Wednesday from Canwest News Service.

“We think we must widen, for the Haiti crisis, the definition of family. So that Haitian families can bring in brothers, sisters, nephews. We must soften the rules for humanitarian reasons,” Mr. Ignatieff told reporters after a caucus meeting Wednesday.

Every day, somewhere in the world... there is a disaster... natural or otherwise.

Think of the misery in Darfur... or most parts of Africa for that matter. There are the rural parts of India. South America abounds with homeless street kids.

There have been... and will continue to be frequent humanitarian disasters worldwide.

Funny how Michael Ignatieff just happens to really, really need one... right now.

The Youth Advocates Program represents the final stage of Alinskyism: its co-optation by the government-funded social-services industry.

Using a profile of past shooting victims that includes such factors as school truancy rates and disciplinary records, he has identified several hundred teens as having a greater than 20 percent chance of getting shot over the next two years.

The program will assign the 300 or so potential victims their own “advocates,” who will intercede on their behalf with government agencies and provide them with case management and counseling.

In a perfect political storm, Scott Brown became the first Republican to win a Massachusetts senate seat since 1972.

The result is one of the biggest post-war shocks and given the fact the Democrats lost their supermajority, probably the most momentous.

Yee-ouch... that's gonna leave a mark.

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LAST WORD: Eyes on the prize

"So in the most liberal of liberal states, in a race for the Senate seat held for two generations by a Kennedy, the voters were asked if they wanted to kill President Barack Obama's cherished health care reform package."

"The population was throwing stones at us to stop us from preventing the looting," said Gabriel Diallo, a United Nations officer from Guinea. "They said we can't stop them from looting the food because they were hungry."

The looters then burned down the store, sending a black cloud into the air that added one more dystopian element to the scene.

So what's the deal here... did somebody actually say to themselves... "How can we possibly make this 'hell on earth' worse?"

Ol Saad tried to pull this kind of shit in any Islamic country in the Middle East... they'd have julienned his ass six ways from eternity.

No wonder these guys laugh at us.

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FROM THE COMMENTS:

"At some point, Canada will have to grow up and understand that terrorists are real-life mass murderers not deserving of all the offender 'rights' that are afforded run of the mill criminals."

"Pass a law that requires a mandatory life sentence, (as in the rest of your life) for plotting or carrying out a terrorist attack. That's probably the best we can hope for since the public is too squeamish to sanction execution."

"Zakaria Amara, the mastermind of a 2006 terrorist plot to bomb Toronto, has been given a life sentence by an Ontario judge, a punishment that represents the courtroom climax of the so-called 'Toronto 18' case."

16 January 2010

Hey, Janie... as long as you're playing these infantile games... your next incredibly important mission, should you choose to accept it... is to corner Iggy's invisible, abandoned first wife & children and ask them how they really feel about Dear Ol' Dad.

How long you figure it'll be before somebody comes away with a sucking chest wound?

-- LOS ANGELES -- Alfred Lomas, 45, a former gang member and the creator of the tour ($65, lunch included), said this drive-by was about educating people on city life, while turning any profits into microloans and other initiatives aimed at providing gang members jobs.

But aside from its unusual logistical challenges — the liability waiver describes the tour as “inherently dangerous” and warns of the risk of death — the venture has also generated debate about its appropriateness.

Hmmm... I'm guessing a hit on the crackpipe, or kibitzing with the "ho's" is extra.

15 January 2010

-- WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has updated its 1998 file photo of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, digitally altering it to account for a decade of age and possible changes in his facial hair.

"Haitian governments plead that the country is too poor to provide such services. There is some truth to this claim. However, millions and millions of dollars donated by foreign governments and charitable groups for infrastructure projects have been stolen by government officials. Cheating and corruption in dealing with these funds are widespread."

"Lastly, the economy is run for the benefit of the rich elite. There are too few just taxes to provide the needed income for the basic infrastructure which makes a decent life possible."

There is now evidence of crooks capitalizing on the generosity of people seeking to help quake-stunned Haiti -- spam e-mails that lead people to think they're donating to the British Red Cross, among other credible sounding organizations.

And there's a Canadian connection...

Symantec says the e-mail actually originated from a Canadian university Web mail server. The e-mail address used to send the message doesn't match the address where the donor is expected to send information.

In the first 36 hours after the tragedy, ABC News found that 64 new Web site URLs that seem connected to Haiti Earthquake relief had been registered.

"If -- God forbid -- Brown wins, he will be the first Republican elected in the state since Cotton Mather, and America will soon descend into a post-apocalyptic fundamentalist hellscape of witch trials and cross-burnings, interrupted only by the ritual mass bulldozing of corpses killed by lack of access to affordable health care."

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RELATED: Send in the Clowns

The new mainstream media was on display for all to see in one giant, embarrassing ensemble. All of them feminized, sensitized and diversified.

14 January 2010

-- Brampton, ON -- "What he planned to do can't be understated, he planned mass murder ... You don't set out to detonate three one-tonne bombs without knowing that a lot of people are going to be killed."

In other homegrown terror news...

Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana has been charged in connection to the 2008 wave of urban bombings that rocked Mumbai and killed more than 160 people.